They buried their dead across the full demographic range of the community, from newborns to elders.

None of this was visible in the stone tool record before Windover, because none of it preserved.

The stone tools gave an accurate picture of a narrow slice of the technological repertoire — the durable, inorganic, hard-edged fraction.

The organic technologies, which were likely the majority of what Early Archaic people made and used, were invisible.

Windover made them visible.

The implication is significant and somewhat uncomfortable for the discipline of archaeology: the standard archaeological picture of any period before the emergence of ceramics or other durable material culture is almost certainly a severe underrepresentation of the actual technological and social complexity of the people who lived during those periods.

The organic technologies — the clothing, the baskets, the nets, the ropes, the wooden tools, the fiber containers — do not survive under normal conditions.